downshifting
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“What are you downshifting to? You need to position it against this sequence of return risk.”
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 30, 2026
Checking up before a tight hairpin—braking late, downshifting with the paddle shifters, turning hard into hairpin corners, the weight of the wheel growing heavy, the little engine piping at full spool.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 28, 2026
Laura Epstein Scully, once a corporate “worker bee,” enjoyed downshifting in retirement and taking a “mañana attitude.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 19, 2024
But the downshifting economy and Amazon’s own attempt to roll back expansion plans cut into its earnings this year, hacking profit back to $278 million.
From New York Times ● Feb. 2, 2023
You could literally see her downshifting from the fastest to the slowest.
From "Patina" by Jason Reynolds
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